Colorful Wedges Baby Blanket

Our Colorful Wedges Baby Blanket embraces the simplicity of garter stitch and throws in the diversion of simple short rows. It’s a wonderful project for dispelling any notions that short rows are difficult, and by the time your blanket is finished, you’ll be a short row pro (if you aren’t one already)!

Our soft and elegant Mulberry Merino works up beautifully in garter stitch and comes in a ton of stunning colors. If you’re like me, you’ll find yourself looking forward to each and every color change… A truly fun project all around!

Portable enough to take along on your summer trips, our Colorful Wedges Baby Blanket is knitting at its most stress-free and rewarding! Enjoy! -Kristy

135 Responses to Colorful Wedges Baby Blanket

I want to knit this baby blanket using the Kersti Merino Crepe (more colors to choose from). How many skeins of each color will I need using the Kersti? (As the yardage differs from the yarn used in your sample.) Thanks for your assistance.

Thanks for writing in! I think that this blanket would be lovely using Kersti! For each of the contrast colors, you will need 1 skein and for the main color you will need 4 or 5 depending on your gauge!

Thanks for writing back! In the original yarn, we use less than half a skein of each of the contrast colors. I find that it helps to see that for the 5 color stripes, we only use 2 skeins of the main color. If you were making the blanket in the original yarn, you could purchase 2 additional skeins of the main color and make 2 blankets!

Thanks for writing in! Due to the nature of this pattern, the best way to scale it up, is to use a thicker yarn and larger needles. You can also always add additional wedges to increase the length! I think that the blanket would be lovely in a thicker yarn, just be sure to knit a gauge swatch to see which needles will make the most pleasing fabric! This will also give you an idea of how large the blanket will be. Once you know the number of stitches per inch that you are getting, you can divide the cast on number by your stitches per inch and that will tell you how wide the blanket will be at your gauge.

Hi, I love this pattern and am going to knit for my new grand-nephew, due in April. I’m going to use a different yarn than you used for your project, as I need something a little less expensive and that has a good amount of color choices (mainly blues/teals/greens -kind of an ombre effect). I am hoping you can give me some suggestions on your yarns that would work well with this pattern, be appropriate for a baby, and fits my needs listed above. Thank you very much for your assistance.

Thanks for writing in! I think that this blanket would be lovely using Manos Maxima. It has a wide range of blues and greens and it incredibly soft! I would recommend going up a needle size when using this yarn.

Thanks for reaching out and for your kind words! At present, our yarns are available exclusively through our NYC shop and on our website. We do ship internationally and ship to the UK regularly. More information regarding shipping can be found here: https://www.purlsoho.com/shipping/

For this lovely blanket, a number of the colors have since been retired. As an alternative I would suggest Turmeric Yellow, Persimmon Orange, Super Pink, Field Mouse and Oyster Gray with the Heirloom White as the background. This is a bit more of a bright color story but I do think that it would be lovely. We’d also be happy to help with an alternate colorway if you have colors that you would like to incorporate!

Hi! I made this blanket as a test/use up some old yarn project and it came out lopsided. I used a multicolored yarn for the left side wedges and a solid color yarn for the right side wedges. I assumed the lopsided-ness was from using the same weight but a different brand yarn. I am now making an official baby blanket, and I’m lopsided again. I am using all the same weight and color of yarn. I counted ridges and on both blankets, the left side wedges have more ridges than the right side wedges. Based on stitch count, there should be 60 rows or 30 ridges for each wedge. Only the right side wedges have the correct number of ridges. What am I doing wrong? I have 6-8 extra ridges on the left (colored) wedges.

I figured it out! I had to knit a smaller version of the blanket to see it, but I was counting the wrapped stitch on the colored wedges, so I had only 3 stitches between wrapped stitches. Not sure how I didn’t see that before, but knitting wedges 1 and 2 differently made it so that I counted correctly on wedge 2 but not wedge 1. So, onward!

Do you have a baby hat pattern that incorporates this blanket design? If not, can you suggest a hat that would complement the design? I have enough yarn left for a hat and booties to go with the blanket. Turning out beautifully!

I don’t know if I’m reading the pattern incorrectly or if there is a misprint. Wedge #1 is fine, but I’m confused with wedge #2. Row 1 (of wedge 2) is “k5, wrp-t” which in my interpretation means the wrp-t is on stitch #6. So following on, with the wrp-t every 5th stitch, the last wrp-t on this wedge would be on stitch #4 (and not stitch #5 as the pattern says). Please clarify. Much appreciated.

Hello Lee,
Thank you for reaching out! After knitting Row 1 “(right side): With Yarn B, K5, wrp-t.”, you will then knit Row 2 “Knit to end of row.” and Row 3 “Knit to previous wrapped stitch, knit that stitch, then k4, wrp-t.” you will then repeat rows 2 and 3 until you have wrapped the fifth stitch from the end of the row, and end with Row 2. This means you will only knit 5 before your wrap and turn on the first rown of the second wedge.

Thanks for writing in! Sadly, a number of the colors used in this blanket have been discontinued! You can certainly use an alternate yarn here. The blanket would be beautiful in Manos Maxima. Maxima does knit up at a different gauge and as such you will need to go up to a US 7 and the blanket will be larger. You should be able to use just one skein of each contrast color and I would suggest buying 3 skeins of the main color. Be sure to wind just two of the main color as there is a chance that you may not need the third.

I don’t knit, but crochet. Could I do this blanket? Do you have a pattern? I’m thinking single crochet and where you say wrap I add new color and crochet five with main color. So I decrease color A by five each row. Would that work?

Hey! I am about to switch to wedge 2, but I can’t tell which side is the RIght and which is wrong. My starting yarn and working yarn are both at the tip of the narrow side of the wedge one. Did I forget to K150 on the last wedge? Do I start wedge 2 on the large side, or the narrow side?